Professional baseball Kiwoom Heroes Lee Jung-hoo (25) signed for 1.1 billion won and achieved the highest annual salary in the history of the KBO League.
On the 20th, Kiwoom Heroes signed an annual salary contract of 1.1 billion won, up 350 million won (46.7%) from 750 million won last year, with Lee Jung-hoo, who won 5 batting crowns last season and became the MVP of the regular league. announced that
With this, Lee Jung-hoo became the first player in the KBO league to exceed 1 billion won in annual salary with a single-year contract, 바카라사이트 excluding special cases such as free agent (FA), multi-year contract, and return to overseas club.
Lee Jeong-hoo is the KBO league’s highest annual salary record holder in the 3rd to 6th years with an annual salary of 230 million won in 2019, an annual salary of 390 million won in the 2020 season, an annual salary of 550 million won in the 2021 season, and an annual salary of 750 million won in the 2022 season. With this contract, the record for the highest annual salary in the 7th year, held by Ha-seong Kim (550 million won) in 2020, has been doubled.
Lee Jung-hoo played in 142 games in the regular season last year and won five batting crowns: batting average (0.349), on-base percentage (0.421), slugging percentage (0.575), hits (193), and RBIs (113 points).